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Walmart plans on dialing things back, but should we be happy with Walmart or worried about them? Also, Biden's blood is coming out of his eyes at a town hall, and we also cover the way I celebrated my wife's birthday.
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Hello, podcasters. Great program for you today. Walmart plans on dialing things back, but
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should we be happy with Walmart or worried about Walmart? Because it's much bigger than that.
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It's involving the banks and everybody else running around the U.S. Constitution. Also,
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Biden. I think this is the big story of the day. He is Dorian Gray. Blood shooting out of his eyes
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at an incredible town hall, which we also cover. We talked a little bit about the way I celebrated
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my wife's birthday. Dave Chappelle in the news again. Marianne Williamson actually speaks the
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truth about something. And Dave Rubin, all on today's broadcast. And we should point out Dave
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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We have two directions that we need to take on this, uh, this, the gun grab nonsense, actually
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more than geez. We had, you know, more politicians coming out yesterday with their solutions.
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Nobody's talking about mental health. Really? Nobody's talking about what is happening with
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our society. There's clearly a hole in our society. Nobody wants to talk about that. They all want to
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talk about guns and solutions. Okay, great. Well, now let's talk about, let's start with a solution
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from corporate America. Uh, Walmart has plans to dramatically step back from ammunition sales
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after what they say were horrific shootings. And they were, it's going to stop all handgun sales in
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Alaska. And why in Alaska? I mean, if you need, if there's a place you need a gun, it probably is
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Alaska. Uh, they're going to stop all handgun sales in Alaska, marking its complete exit from the handguns
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category. Uh, Walmart also, and Sam's Club will no longer allow open carry firearms in the stores
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where open carry is, is, uh, allowed. I mean, in Texas, nobody does, but you would wear it on your
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hip if you wanted to, unless you're an authorized law enforcement officer. The open carry legislation
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is currently on the books in more than 26 States. Walmart also, um, they're not changing their policy
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yet for those who have permits for concealed carry, but they're adding signage in the stores about this.
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Uh, they say that, you know, an open carry could be misinterpreted, uh, by somebody else.
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And what they're going to pull their gun out and shoot shares of guns and ammunition, uh,
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makers added to the losses early in the day. When it comes to, um, when it comes to, uh, the stock
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market, Vista outdoor stock closed, uh, down 6%, Smith and Wesson, uh, its stock fell 4.5 Ruger and
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company closed down 0.6 and Walmart ended the day up 0.3. They said that they are going to now no longer
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sell the bullets that are used, uh, to kill people. And so they're not going to sell two, two, three,
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uh, or is it, was it five, five, six or five? Oh, I can't remember the other one. Two, two, three and
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five, something. I can never remember it. Uh, and two, two, seven. It was this, wasn't that a show in
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the eighties? Uh, I believe it was room two 22. Okay. I think it's what you were talking about. Yeah.
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They, the, the, the Alaska thing too was essentially their point, right? Like they only had them in
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Alaska because it was the one place where they just, that was like the last place they decided
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to sell them. And now they're even pulling them out of Alaska. Huge, uh, mass shooting problem in
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Alaska. Yeah. It's a place you need them. It's a place you need them. It's, it's tough. You know,
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I understand the idea here, right? You get pressure, you have a tragedy in one of your stores.
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You can understand, uh, the, the idea that you want to do something, but we all know these things
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will not be effective. The idea that because they're not at Walmart, people can't get guns.
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Like, I mean, it's just ridiculous. Bad people are going to get guns. Yeah. They're going to get
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guns. I mean, are there things that we can do to make sure everybody gets a background check? Yes,
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but they have, they have ramifications everywhere. Now you, you have, uh, no place to buy bullets if
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you're at Walmart and all these lefties are saying, Oh, we're going to shop at Walmart now.
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No, you're not. You hate Walmart. You hate it. A, you think it's beneath you to shop at Walmart.
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B, you've been against their policies because there's a big, you know, it's a, it's a big box
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store. And so they're hurting their workers and they won't unionize and all of this crap.
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They're not going to shop there. And I will tell you that if you shop at Walmart after this,
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you are only going to aid all of the other industries that are going to do the same thing.
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here's the thing. The founders never thought of the founders never considered that corporations
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could become bigger than the government. The, the, the, um, uh, constitution and the bill of
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rights says what the government cannot ever do, but it doesn't say what a corporation can and cannot
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do. And I don't want it to, I want corporations to be able to do what they want to do. If Walmart wants
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to do this, Walmart should be able to do this. The problem is there is a guy at the New York times
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that is coordinating. A lot of this is openly advocating for all corporations, anyone in the
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chain of supply, that's truckers, shippers, uh, gun manufacturers, gun, uh, sales, uh, credit card
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companies, banks, anybody who touches a gun at all in any way to stop providing services.
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Well, now, wait a minute. That's, that's infringing on my right to own a gun. If I can't buy it
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anywhere, well, who needs the second amendment? The government could say, well, we didn't infringe,
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but all these companies, yes, but they were coordinated. They're being coordinated by the left,
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but there will be, I think, conservative companies that pop up and coordinate it the other way.
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Um, they will push back on this stuff. I mean, you remember too, you gotta, it's, it's weird
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with Walmart, right? It's a statement and the statement is really annoying, but of course,
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Walmart was selling guns and all of their competitors don't, they were the only targets,
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not selling guns. Yeah. Right. So the fact that they did it longer is, is an, I mean,
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an argument that they actually, and they're still selling guns by the way. Yeah. They still
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are selling guns. They're the only ones doing it in this, in this retail group. So it's a tough
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one because they actually are doing more even now, uh, to, to get guns to people, uh, in America
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than, you know, target is or any of their other main competitors. I go up to Idaho. I buy my ammunition,
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uh, many times at Walmart. Now I can't, I mean, it's just, it's a tough one because they're the
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ones making the statement. So you want to say, you know what? I want to show them that I don't
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like that statement. However, these other companies have already made their statement.
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They're currently making a statement by not selling guns at all. We would have these issues
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occasionally because there'd be, um, you know, one of these organized boycott groups that would
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come after us and they would, you know, one of these companies would pull their advertising from
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the show or whatever. I mean, it was, was a lot more rare than was reported, but occasionally did
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happen. And so one of these companies would pull their, um, advertising and our listeners who are
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awesome would decide like, I'm going to essentially punish them and go out and call them like crazy
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and make a big deal about it online. And it was all like motivated by really good things. And
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it was like, we were cheering it on internally. Like there's a part of you that's just like,
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yes, absolutely. However, there are multiple thousands of companies that avoid these shows
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completely because of issues like that, because they know if, if something happens and they feel
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like they need to pull their advertising, they're going to be the ones singled out, even though they
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were the ones that were actually advertising on the show. Right. And so it's, it's like the one
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who actually takes the risk. I mean, Walmart did stand up to a lot of pressure over many years
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about gun sales. The fact that they're folding now to me is pathetic and it's wrong. And they're
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doing something that's incorrect. However, we, I mean, you're going to give your business to
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another company. I mean, 99% of businesses do not sell guns. Walmart still does.
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So it's a, I, it is a, it's a tough, if Walmart isn't, if Walmart isn't hurt by this, it's like
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Nike. Look what Nike did. Nike stock went up, their sales went up. You think they're learning
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what lesson they're learning? Go for it. Okay. If Walmart doesn't, Walmart is different because
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it's right in the heart of America. It should understand the heart of America and it's the
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biggest retailer out there. So you have, you have Walmart doing this. If they don't feel any
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pain from this, it makes everyone else. What I'm worried about, and I've been saying this for
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what, two years, the banks, once the banks get involved and they say they're not going to loan
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money to gun manufacturers, they're not going to loan money to gun stores, they're not going to allow
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credit cards to be used to buy guns or bullets. Then it's a whole new world. Then you have,
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what are you going to do? I want to buy a $3,000 gun. Okay. You pull $3,000 out of your bank account.
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Are you going to be now on a watch list from the bank because you pulled a whole bunch of money out?
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I have to try binding it with a credit card, right? It's going to be difficult. You've seen this happen
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with marijuana across the country because it's not federally legal, still federally illegal,
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but there's obviously every state is, you know, moving in this direction and many states have
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already legalized it. So these businesses who are raking in tons and tons of cash have no place to
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keep it. They have no place to keep it. They can't put their money in a bank. They have to like figure
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out that there's all sorts of stories of people going to go buy homes. Like, you know, you're a marijuana
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dealer. You take your money, you go and you buy a home in cash and then immediately sell it. And
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that's how you get your money out because you're essentially laundering money through the system,
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right? You can't put it in a bank. So that sort of thing could actually happen with guns where,
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you know, look, the marijuana business is still thriving, but it's a parallel economy,
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right? It's something it's completely outside of the main system again. And yes. And is this a good
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thing, by the way, if you actually care about gun violence, is it a good thing that
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all of these transactions are now going to happen in cash? Like, is that is that is this something
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you're excited about? The ramifications of these dumb decisions are never considered until
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afterwards. Much worse, much worse. The guy at the New York Times says, yes, because the most killers
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can't afford the guns. So they have to put them on credit cards. Right? Yeah, that's their bigger
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argument. Okay. Really? Okay. So it's only poor people are killing people? Because I know if I said
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that we get thrown off the air, it's only poor people who are the murderers. That's that's one
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that gets conservatives banned from radio. Okay, so this is this is the corporate realm. This is the
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attack from the corporate realm. We know the political realm. But let me share with you what
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I shared with you yesterday, first about something called BCI. And then what the Trump administration
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has brought back to the table as a possible solution. It is. It is the beginning of the police state.
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Hey, it's Glenn. And I want to tell you about something that you should either end your day
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with or start your morning with. And that is the news and why it matters. If you like this show,
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you're going to love the news and why it matters. It's a bunch of us that all get together at the end
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of the day and just talk about the stories that matter to you and your life, the news and why it
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matters. Look for it now wherever you download your favorite podcast. I've been telling you for a while
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that we are entering a brave new world and that we must have these conversations now and discuss
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right now what we're willing to accept and what we're not willing to accept. Because as they're rolled
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out, if you don't really think about it, they're just going to be rolled out and everybody will accept
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it and then everything will be fine until it's not. Okay, we have to decide, is there a line
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and what that line is? Yesterday, I told you something about BCI. Those are brain computer
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interfaces. This is reality. This is not science fiction. It's about a year with Elon Musk. It's about
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a year away from actual human testing of this. But with Zuckerberg, it's already been tested and he has
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the algorithm that can actually read your mind. It can take the neurons in your head, read them and
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attach words to those neurons. Now you have to ask yourself, is there any privacy anymore? Do you have
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a right to your own thoughts? Or does the government have a right to those thoughts? Do the corporations
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have a right to those thoughts? By the way, it works two ways. Not only can it read, it can write. So in
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other words, it can nudge you one way or another without you even knowing it. Now, Musk is saying that
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we have to have this because we're not going to be able to handle AI. We will be destroyed by AI.
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He said, we're just going to be too stupid and too slow to understand really anything that is going
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on and it's going to become godlike. So we must be immersed in the internet. But remember, the internet
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is two ways. Now, if you thought that was nuts, that is the end game step, I believe. That's when
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Stephen Hawking becomes right. When he said, by 2050, Homo sapiens will no longer exist. He didn't mean
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that all humans are going to die. What he meant was you will be so augmented by 2050 that you will no
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longer be human. You're going to be a new hybrid and a new sort of a new sort of being. And there
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won't be any natural human beings left because everyone will either want this or be required
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to have it. Imagine if, if the guy working next to you was constantly wired to the internet and could
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see everything. And when he meets somebody, he knows their name. He knows everything about them.
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Uh, and you are sitting there. You're just a natural person. You're not going to be able to
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compete. So is that the world you want? Now that seems like it's a long way away, but trust me, it is
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not. Let me give you this. The Trump administration is considering a proposal that would use Google,
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Amazon, and Apple to collect data on users who exhibit characteristics of mental illness that could
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lead to violent behavior. The proposal is part of a initiative to create a health advanced research
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projects agency or HARPA. It would be located inside the health and human services department.
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Uh, the new agency would have a separate budget and the president would be responsible for ordering
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its director. HARPA would take after defense advanced research project agency or DARPA, which serves as
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the research arm for the Pentagon. Now this idea was first crafted and presented to the white house in
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2017. Uh, but it failed to gather any ground. However, it has a renewed push. Susan Wright
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foundation approached the president recently and proposed the agency include a project called stopping
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abhorrent, um, fatal events by helping overcome mental extremes or safe home is the acronym who's against
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safe home. Uh, the, the, uh, woman's wife is Bob Wright. He was former, uh, executive of NBC was the chair of NBC
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close relationship with Donald Trump. They're now looking at your Apple watch and Amazon echo and Google home
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to listen, to see if you have any disturbing patterns that the government should be aware of.
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America. It's time to stop talking about the stupid, silly things and see the writing on the wall and
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Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat Gray
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unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. I want to introduce
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you to somebody who's a guest of mine in the studio today. His name is Brett Johnson. Um,
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I don't know Brett. I met him yesterday. Um, but Brett was, uh, Brett was listening to KNRS what two
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days ago. Yeah. And I called in because yesterday was my wife's birthday and I'm in Los Angeles and
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she always says to me, you know, I'll say, honey, what just it's 20 years. I've tried. I've tried.
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I've tried everything I get. My wife, she does not like. Oh, you've bought her spectacular presents
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and I bought little presents, spectacular. I've done everything. Every little combination, nothing,
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nothing. And she's always, I don't need anything. And the minute, the minute that you would say,
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okay, well, I won't get you anything. That's the worst move. I know that's a trap. Okay. I'm never
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falling for that. I know that's a trap. So, um, we were, uh, we were traveling about a week ago
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and, uh, we were in Utah, which has cafe Rio. Now, for some reason, my life, my wife, her,
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her entire, if, if, if she could design heaven, it would be a cafe Rio. Okay. She, we have to have
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cafe Rio cafe Rio. Yeah. We have to have cafe Rio the minute we land and the last thing before we
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take off. Okay. Is it a, what can you describe it? It's a, yeah, it's a Mexican restaurant. It's
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like a high end. No, it's like a Casa, uh, what is it? Casa Verde here. And it's better. Costa Vida.
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Costa Vida. I don't think those are any, all over the place either, but like the, they're up from a
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Taco Bell, but like, how about from a Chipotle a little above a Chipotle? Hmm. Is it a little
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about the same? Yeah, I think it's about the same. Okay. So it's no big deal. It's just, it's a fast
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food restaurant. Okay. Uh, and, uh, she loves it. And so, um, I thought to myself, that's what I'm
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going to get her for her birthday. Cause she was having, cause they're in Los Angeles too. Uh, well
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yes, but I didn't have any friends in Los Angeles and I was coming home too late. And so, uh, I was
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in Los Angeles and I couldn't get, you think I'm going to get through security with a bunch of food
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and everything else, not a chance in hell. Um, and they didn't have one past the security gates.
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They actually are in, if I understand they're not even in Los Angeles, I don't think. Are they?
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I don't know. I don't think they are. I think there's like, I think cause it, you know,
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I do know a little bit about the story and we looked at it yesterday. I think there's
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like, it's like Utah, Arizona, maybe there's one or two other States. I thought it was in
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Los Angeles, but it could be wrong. Um, but I, so I knew I didn't have a chance. So I decided
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to call Rod Arquette, who is at our station at KNRS in Salt Lake. And Rod is just a super
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great guy. And he's just a normal guy. And I called him up and I said, Rod, this is, I know
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this is really stupid. I said, but I want to get my wife a gift. And what
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she really will want for her birthday is cafe Rio. And he just started laughing and
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he's like, no, really? And I'm like, no, really? That's what she will want. That'd
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be the best. I get so many husband points for this, but I don't know. I mean, I called
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the attorney general's office and they're like, Glenn, we can't help you get food through
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the TSA. And I'm like, really? I mean, there's nothing you can do. Threaten them with some
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sort of investigation. They're like, no, so that's not the way it works. Well, I mean,
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it is the way it works, but we're not doing that for you. So, uh, so I call Rod and I
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said, Rod, I need somebody in your audience that can either, you know, get it to Delta
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and then somebody at Delta that will put it on a plane. I'll buy a first class seat
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if I have to, to put it on the plane. Then I'll have somebody pick it up. And well, we
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got, we gave out, uh, my security guys private number. Cause he was like, well, what number?
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And we hadn't even thought of that. We're like, Oh geez, we're thinking everything else. So
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we get out his number. It rings all night, all night. People are calling and not like
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your security needs an open line. Not at all. Not at all. So Brett is one of the guys who
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calls and he calls and I'm listening. They have it on speakerphone and I'm listening. And
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he's like, uh, yeah, I used to work for the airline. I don't anymore, but, uh, your system's
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not going to work. You actually need somebody to go. Uh, and I'm willing to go, you know,
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I just, I'm, I'm, I, I have a, I'm self-employed, blah, blah, blah. What was your thinking here
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when you said you were willing to go on a trip to, I thought his wife wanted one burrito.
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Okay. And you're like, Oh, that'll be easy. You'll bring a burrito on a plane. Yeah, no,
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she wanted to, she had, it was a party with seven of her friends last night because I
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was not supposed to be there. So seven of her friends and they all wanted the salad. I think
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it's something with the dressing or something. I think we could have just gotten away with
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the dressing. Um, but, uh, so they wanted salad. So I asked him, could you, can you, can
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you bring seven, seven, uh, salads, uh, to Dallas? Yeah. Well, I knew your plan wasn't
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going to work. You can't go and put food on a seat in an airplane and have it end up where
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it's going to go. Really? No. That should be something that exists though. It doesn't.
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No. No. So I, I knew, I knew you'd need a warm body to, to haul it out there. And I've,
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I've traveled a lot over the years and not uncommon for me to fly to a city for an hour and fly back.
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So, so what did the people in your life think of this? Well, obviously that it's insane.
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Yeah. But not surprised. Right. Right. It sounds like something you'd do. Right. That's what my
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wife said. Right. So put those two statements together for a second. It's insane. And it
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sounds like something you would do. What is he saying about you, Glenn? Uh, no, I think he was
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saying it was something that he would do that I would do. He's insane. Oh, okay. Well, now the idea
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that you hired an insane person to, to bring Mexican food across state lines. Right. We
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did talk about that. Okay. Yeah. We did talk about that. Yeah. Well, the idea that his wife
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wanted Cafe Rio, I mean, uh, Cafe Rio is awesome. I mean, huge fan of Cafe Rio. And I was telling
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Glenn, I said, I often get that text on my way home from work. Cafe Rio? Question mark? Yeah. Yeah. I
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know what I have to do now. Right. It's Cafe Rio. It's Cafe Rio. So last night, so we met him
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at the airport because I was coming in, he got in at what? Two o'clock? Yeah. And so we had somebody
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meet him at the airport to take the food, uh, to make sure that it was, you know, not all
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now all poisoned because it was sitting out all day. Did you grab a chip at all? Did you
00:25:22.580
get anything? Did you eat any of the food on the way? I did not. Yeah. So, uh, he delivered
00:25:27.440
it perfectly. So we got it. And, and then I come into the airport about five 30 and we're
00:25:33.160
just chatting. And I said, you got to stay the night, uh, and, and, you know, just come
00:25:36.900
in for the breakfast for the radio show the next day. Uh, and then, so he's going home
00:25:41.740
today, but I, I, I want you to know, I set it all up about six 30 last night. Everybody
00:25:48.700
was coming over at seven. I'm not even invited to this party. And, uh, I tell my wife, just
00:25:54.740
get out of the kitchen for a while. And I said, I set it up and it's in these, you know,
00:25:59.560
these tins, you know, the, you know, regular fast food tins and it's in these tins. And
00:26:05.280
I just set it all up. Uh, and the, all the girls come over and my wife walks in and, uh,
00:26:12.160
she looks and she said, is, is this cafe Rio? And I said, yes. She said, how did you get
00:26:23.160
it here? And I said, it was very complex and we're currently paying for a man staying at
00:26:29.120
a hotel. Uh, and all the, all of her friends said, it's weird. This cafe real thing is
00:26:36.780
weird, especially with women. They all said, wait a minute, this isn't Costa Vida. And I
00:26:41.880
said, no, that's cafe Rio. And they all looked at me and then they looked at her and then
00:26:46.180
they looked at me and they went, you're a good husband, Brett. Thank you for those points.
00:26:53.260
Wow. Amazing. And first of all, you should be getting Brett cafe Rio free for the rest of
00:26:57.800
your life for this. I hope they're hearing this because, uh, that you should be hooked
00:27:02.700
up for every text that comes in, uh, should be a free meal for you. Yeah. That's an amazing
00:27:07.240
job. Well, thank you for doing that. Well, this has been a lot of fun. I mean, when I was
00:27:10.360
telling Glenn, I said, you know, uh, I'm a stranger to you, but you guys aren't a stranger
00:27:13.840
to me. I've listened to you guys for a long time. So when you made the request, it was like
00:27:16.880
a friend needing help. So it was so cool. It was so cool. And that's the way that's, that's
00:27:21.340
the way all of these calls were all of these calls were like, Glenn, tell Glenn, I'll help
00:27:26.420
him out anyway. What's he need? Uh, I'll get it from here to there. I'll do whatever.
00:27:30.920
I mean, it was really neat. We have great listeners. And now you're married for another
00:27:34.080
day, which is always a surprise. It is, it is me and tonight because there's no cafe
00:27:39.180
Rio, but, uh, thank you so much. This is the best of the Glenn Beck program.
00:27:46.260
Hey, it's Glenn. And if you like what you hear on the program, you should check out Pat
00:28:00.980
Gray unleashed. His podcast is available wherever you download your favorite podcast. So, uh,
00:28:07.260
Kevin Hart is in trouble with the left again. You know, if you don't say exactly what these
00:28:14.260
Nazis want, uh, you're, you're out. I mean, they're just, they're going to destroy Kevin
00:28:20.140
Hart. They're going to do their best to destroy Kevin Hart. Kevin Hart, I think is funny enough
00:28:25.060
and big enough to survive. Not in height. No, not clearly not in height, not in, in, in,
00:28:32.760
in prominence. Yeah. So he is, um, uh, he, he was on some sort of a podcast with some
00:28:41.720
singer. That's what do you know who the singer is? I do not know. Okay. He's some singer,
00:28:48.320
some singer I've never heard of. You probably haven't either. And there's those who do know
00:28:52.340
are screaming in their cars right now. How can you not know what's his face? All right,
00:28:56.580
whatever. I get it. Um, but he just came out as gay and, uh, and Kevin Hart said while there
00:29:05.900
to him, you know, I don't, I just don't see this as a big deal. Why is this such a big
00:29:09.920
deal? Well, if you grew up in the black community, Kevin, you'd know why it's such a big deal.
00:29:14.780
Yeah, but it's not, it's not, well, that's not good enough because he didn't recognize,
00:29:19.620
uh, homophobia. And so he was being very, very, uh, unfeeling to all gays because he wouldn't
00:29:30.480
recognize the homophobia and, and the bravery that it takes to come out. Okay. Maybe it takes
00:29:37.100
bravery to come out and especially in some, you know, communities or some families. And I recognize
00:29:43.280
that, but the rest of us feel like Kevin Hart. Who cares? Who cares? I don't, I don't need to know
00:29:52.780
about your sexuality. You don't want to hear about mine. You want to hear, you want to hear about,
00:29:56.740
yeah, you know, when my wife and I start to feel a little rendy, you don't. Okay. Shut up. Shut up.
00:30:03.780
Shut up. I feel the same way. I don't want to know about anybody's sex life. I don't need to know it.
00:30:10.560
Now is it Lil Nas X? Lil Nas X. Lil Nas. There's no T's. Lil Nas X. Yeah. Uh, Old Town Road would be
00:30:20.060
the song you may have penetrated your world if you do have children. Nope. Um, but, uh, yes, very
00:30:25.340
popular. Uh, my kids, I swear to you, listen to Dean Martin and I mean, it's, they're weirdos. That
00:30:31.240
is not surprising at all. They are weirdos. Not the weirdos part that, you know, I know them,
00:30:36.280
so they're, they're not weird, but, uh, the fact that they listen to Dean Martin around your house
00:30:40.040
does not surprise me at all. Yeah. So Lil Nas, Lil Nas may have penetrated their world,
00:30:46.480
but it hasn't penetrated mine. Maybe Lil Nas X or Lil Nas 10, which it's one of the two.
00:30:51.840
There may have been nine Lil Nas's before him. Just so you know that. Well, it's probably
00:30:57.680
X because maybe it's like Malcolm X. Maybe he's related to Malcolm X. First of all, it is definitely
00:31:04.500
X. However, I like the idea that there was nine Lil Nas's before him. So I'm going with Lil Nas 10.
00:31:10.480
So it's like senior, junior, the third, and X. Okay. I got it. Okay. You know, this is Dave Chappelle in
00:31:17.900
his, in his comedy special, which again, does not surprise anyone in the country. Doesn't surprise
00:31:26.820
anyone that all of the critics are giving it on Rotten Tomatoes, giving it a zero rating.
00:31:38.720
Yeah. His, cause it was initially legitimately zero percent. Yeah. Right. From the critics.
00:31:43.200
What is it now? Six? Uh, last time I saw it was 33. Oh wow. 33. Uh, it is now 30, 33% from
00:31:48.760
critics, uh, 99% from fans. Okay. This just goes to prove that the elites and people that I never
00:31:57.620
thought of, of, you know, Rotten Tomatoes as elites. Well, I mean, Rotten Tomatoes is just compiling
00:32:03.180
critics. I mean, they're not, they have no opinion. Well, no, they selected, they hired an, an, an, an additional,
00:32:07.620
I think, hundred critics here recently. Mm-hmm. So they are, they are picking and choosing
00:32:12.960
the critics. Okay. Yeah. I mean, they also definitely though, carry the reviews of conservative
00:32:18.680
critics. Whatever. Yeah. Whatever. But, um, it just goes to show you that, I mean, that's
00:32:23.680
why I, have you ever asked what the critics say on any movie? I mean, I, I, I do. And we've
00:32:31.560
talked about this before. Yeah. Cause I, it depends on the movie, right? Like if you have a movie
00:32:35.860
that's like an action movie or a horror movie, the, the critics reviews usually aren't that
00:32:41.740
important because. Yeah. So if I'm going to a Jane Austen movie, maybe I'll listen to the
00:32:46.780
critics. Yeah. I think like, I think a lot of times you find, you know, certain like, like
00:32:51.920
dramas and indie films and stuff. You can tell a lot from the critics, I think. Um, and you
00:32:56.520
could also tell a lot from the politics of it. I mean, it's very, if the politics are bad,
00:33:02.420
when I say bad, I mean bad to the left. If the politics of the movie can be interpreted
00:33:06.780
that way, you can guarantee a negative, uh, percentage from critics. Cause that's what
00:33:12.100
they will see in it. It's almost like if you were to watch a funny show, a funny comedian,
00:33:16.260
this happens all the time with the, with, with conservatives, a funny movie, but the messaging
00:33:20.140
is constantly berating you over the head with, you know, global warming or whatever left-wing
00:33:24.840
cause they're pushing. A hundred percent. It affects your experience. Yeah. And the same
00:33:28.580
thing happens to critics. They are hardcore leftists generally, and they get these, they
00:33:34.700
watch these movies and all they see is Ronald Reagan isn't treated like Hitler. Like I can't,
00:33:40.660
I can't watch this. And it's automatic negative review. So I definitely do think that that that's
00:33:45.220
a legitimate thing that permeates. It's legitimate. Obviously look at Dave Chappelle. Yeah. Dave
00:33:49.480
Chappelle is taking on the left, uh, and they don't like it. Yeah. They don't like it. What's
00:33:56.100
interesting about this one in particular, Glenn, is that Chappelle does this stuff all
00:34:00.160
the time. Like all of Chappelle's specials have these types of moments in them where
00:34:05.980
he's being critical of the culture in a way that, you know, your average CNN pundit would
00:34:10.680
not be comfortable with. He, you know, it's the same thing with Louis CK and you know, there's
00:34:15.260
a whole, there, the, the people who are the real legends of current comedy and both of Chappelle
00:34:20.960
and Louis CK would be in that category. Um, they are all comfortable going into those
00:34:27.700
areas where you're not supposed to go, which is what makes them great. You know, partially
00:34:31.720
they're also technicians of what they do, but it's, that's part of it. Like that is what
00:34:36.420
is part of comedy. And so Chappelle's always done this like, like, like, like, uh, um, uh,
00:34:43.900
Oh shoot. What's his name? Uh, friend of ours, pale Jim Gaffigan. He said pale and I knew
00:34:49.120
right away. So, uh, Jim Gaffigan, he is a political really. Yeah. And he is a absolute technician.
00:34:55.860
I mean, you watch him. He is brilliant on the technical side of Amazon special is hold
00:35:02.000
your sides. Busta gut funny. It's almost too many laughs in a row and too fast, right? Too
00:35:06.220
fast. And, and he's absolutely brilliant, but he's not political at all, but that's who
00:35:13.860
he is. And, and, and he's not saying anything really controversial except yeah, I'm fat and
00:35:19.400
I don't mind. And I don't mind, uh, where Chappelle is, you know, some of the we're starting
00:35:25.860
to see the beginnings of, of a Lenny Bruce where you're getting these guys who are taking
00:35:32.560
the establishment on. And that is always been that way, but it wasn't until recently that
00:35:39.420
the left was the establishment and they don't want you to take it on culture.
00:35:43.860
Is the establishment and they are sick of it. I mean, comedians are sick of it. So
00:35:47.400
listen, here's the, we have two clips here of him talking about Kevin Hart. Here's clip
00:35:53.720
They even got poor Kevin Hart. Can you imagine such a thing? Kevin Hart. Let me tell you something.
00:35:59.280
It was, it was Kevin Hart's dream to host the Oscars. That's what he told me. And I remember
00:36:06.880
when he told me, cause I was thinking to myself, well, this is an awfully strange dream for an
00:36:11.320
African-American. He had dreams of hosting the Oscars. Kevin did. That's who. And he did it.
00:36:23.320
Against all the odds, Kevin became the most famous comedian this world has ever seen. And he got the
00:36:29.240
job that only one black man before him had had. He was going to host the 80th Oscars. And I don't
00:36:34.900
know what you know about Kevin, but I know Kevin Hart is damn near perfect. As close to perfect as
00:36:40.800
anybody I've ever seen. In fact, Kevin is precisely four tweets shy of being perfect.
00:36:49.260
Meaning the four tweets that he tweeted out years ago, uh, that everybody was pouncing on here. He goes
00:36:57.780
into the gay community. He, he follows this with, he's not a bigot. He's not against homosexuals. And
00:37:07.280
then he starts going on the gay community. Listen to this. Ooh, the gay community was furious and I don't
00:37:15.020
blame him. I got a lot of gay friends and all of them, a hundred percent of them all have told me
00:37:22.100
horror stories about the they had to go through just to be themselves. Crazy, crazy stories. And
00:37:28.320
in all those stories, I got to say, not one of them has ever mentioned anything like their father
00:37:34.340
smashing a dollhouse over their head. Which is what Kevin says. Clearly Kevin was joking.
00:37:42.800
Right. And that's the thing. Jokes are now treated as if they're serious statements when it's
00:37:49.880
convenient. Like, listen to this review. This is one of the reviews from Rotten Tomatoes. It's
00:37:53.880
negative. Lacking empathy can certainly be amusing, but sticks and stones. The Dave Chappelle special
00:37:59.980
is a tired routine by a man who forgot to layer jokes into his act too often sounding like a pundit on
00:38:07.200
Fox News. Unbelievable. How could you possibly watch that? This is the first time I have heard someone
00:38:13.140
in a long time do things that was the opposite of fishing for claptor. Everything we see is all
00:38:21.860
about claptor now. This guy doesn't care if you clap or laugh or anything. He's just saying what he
00:38:28.780
thinks is funny. And it's funny all the way through. And it takes on both sides. Here's why
00:38:36.280
here's why he got in trouble. Continue on to alphabet people.
00:38:41.780
But you see what I didn't realize at the time and what Kevin had to learn the hard way is we were
00:38:46.940
breaking an unwritten and unspoken rule of show business. And if I say it, you'll know that I'm
00:38:53.160
telling you the truth. The rule is that no matter what you do in your artistic expression, you are
00:38:58.440
never, ever allowed to upset the alphabet people. You know who I mean. Those people that took 20%
00:39:14.580
in the alphabet for themselves. I'd say the letters, but I don't want to conjure their anger.
00:39:26.820
I mean, it is amazing that that stuff is being said by someone who, by the way, was absolutely
00:39:32.900
revered without exception by the left as of two weeks ago. One more clip. He talks about the
00:39:40.580
the T's in the alphabet. People be surprised. I have friends, all kinds of letters. Everybody
00:39:46.140
loves me and I love everybody. I got friends who are L's. I got friends who are B's. And I got
00:39:51.120
friends who are G's. But the T's hate my guts. And I don't blame them. It's not their fault. It's
00:40:04.500
mine. I can't stop telling jokes about this. I don't want to write these jokes, but I just can't stop.
00:40:19.180
You know, you hear all those letters together all the time. LBGT, LBGT. And you think it's just
00:40:25.240
one big movement. It's not. All those letters are their own movement. They just travel in the
00:40:32.420
same car together. He talks about them in the car. And it is very funny. Dave Chappelle,
00:40:41.520
Sticks and Stones. It's a Netflix special. Critics don't like it. Audience loves it.
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00:41:50.100
this, I believe, in the entire Democratic field. If you're talking about the positive thing that
00:41:54.800
she said. Yeah. Okay. So here she said, quote, I know this sounds naive. I didn't think the left
00:42:01.820
was so mean. I didn't think the left lied like this. I thought the right did that. I thought we were
00:42:08.700
better. This is why I said, welcome those people who are waking up. Welcome them because they don't
00:42:18.920
know and they they've never seen it themselves. There are a lot of people on the right. When things
00:42:25.220
happen, you'll go, I didn't see that coming from my side. I really thought we meant it. And you're
00:42:32.360
waking up. All these people are waking up. And many of them have just truly believed that somehow
00:42:39.780
or another, we really wanted children to die. And once they see it on their side, they they wake up
00:42:47.360
and they're like, okay. And if we're like, see, and we're never like that. No, many of us are not.
00:42:55.840
We we just have bought into it's just them. And I think they're much, much, much, much,
00:43:01.140
much worse. But we have a few people on our side that are just as bad.
00:43:06.820
And if you just say, look, I get it. You know, sometimes people on our side,
00:43:13.960
there's an industry over here trying to shut people up on the left. But it's about 15%. Let's
00:43:20.300
be kind 15% on both sides. The rest of us are normal. We just don't know it about the other one
00:43:27.340
because we've been we've been kept apart. And that's the key. Anyone who is trying to shut
00:43:34.140
you up, anyone who is trying to say Dave Chappelle, shut up, or you shouldn't go see it because of
00:43:39.480
you should disregard those people. You know, it was Bridget Phetasy was on yesterday. And she said,
00:43:46.020
you know, they live in this bubble. And now they're trying to make that bubble even more insulated
00:43:50.660
by saying, hey, you if you even disagree, and you're inside the bubble out of the bubble,
00:43:55.080
because we can't have that in this bubble. That's that's crazy talk.
00:43:59.680
Yeah, I don't know if we have time to get to her the rest of her comments. But maybe we could do
00:44:04.900
that after the break, because it was actually jarring. And you realize how far the left has gone
00:44:09.420
when her statements, which are very innocuous, are jarring to you. I mean, from a presidential
00:44:16.280
candidate, it should not be hard to dig up a Democrat out of a 2526 person field that will say
00:44:22.160
basically generally nice and encouraging things about faith. Right? Like, again, Marianne Williamson
00:44:28.460
has all sorts of problems. And I certainly would not want her to be president of the United States,
00:44:32.980
or my doctor, or anything else. But like, at least she's acknowledging a role for faith in this
00:44:41.440
country that was, you know, founded on the ideas of freedom of religion.
00:44:46.260
She's the only one that is saying the truth about guns. While she's talking, I'm sure about gun control
00:44:53.520
and everything else. She's also saying this most important, it's not the gun, there's a hole inside
00:44:59.480
of us, something is missing. You know, she says it's love. But I think it's, I mean, it may end there. But
00:45:07.200
there's a lot of stuff missing that leads to love, that we are, we are creating in ourselves,
00:45:14.520
we are allowing to grow and be fostered in our children. And that needs to be addressed far
00:45:20.660
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